"....everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith. Who then overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God." 1 John 5:3-5

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I don't much recognize my country these days, because there are too many people around me who seem to have fallen asleep and gotten themselves body-snatched. I am starting to learn to pretend when I am among them, walking stiffly, nodding correctly, smiling blankly, for fear of being found out that I have not succumbed to "change." I try not to speak, but when I do, I mutter incoherently and throw in the syllables "ohh-bahhh-mahhh" every so often, as a sort of reverent yawn. The hope, of course, is to avoid being forced into open prostration to the One. It's just safer this way ...